This research is made possible in part by a grant from BP/The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, and in part by
a grant from DOE's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program.

The CRCM forecast software
is developed by Dr. Raffaele Montuoro at the Texas A&M University Supercomputing Facility in collaboration with
the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Research Group (COARG) at Texas A&M University.

Forecasts are produced on a HPC
system at the Texas A&M University Supercomputing Facility.